I'm new here, was wondering if anyone here is self Medicating on Natural Dessicated Thyroid?
I've been diagnosed with Hashimotos for near 13 years, mostly just on t4 thyroxine, teary had blood results in the normal
Range but even when they were I still had the symptoms of Hashi.
I want to take t3 but in Australia you can't unless you are a cancer patient or are intolerant to synthetic t4.
I purchase NDT from the USA recently and started taking half of a half grain for about 5 days, I developed a rash that I thought was the NDT (though now I'm not so sure) so I halved the dose, the rash eased then returned so I stopped taking the NDT but the rash has continued to fade and return and seems to be from eating cashew nuts!
Anyway, I want to start again on the NDT.
My Ffre T4 and T3 are below normal rang and TSHis high.
Just wondering if any of you have switched from synthetic and how you started taking NDT.
Ps I did tell my gp if ordered it and she didn't seem to bothered considering its banned here, she just told me I would need to be careful to not Over do the T4.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated
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Hi Hashi, I took Synthroid (T4) for six years in the U.S. because my doctor kept refusing the Armour that I preferred. I had a lot of muscle issues at the time. That was 15 years ago but you still need a prescription to get NDT here? Are you sure it is not from a bovine source?
I finally did find a GP to prescribe it. It was a definite improvement.
You don't say how much T4 you are taking but I think you can move NDT rather quickly up to a comparable dose. Some articles equate 100 mcgs. T4 to one grain of NDT but that may not be exact. Someone may have newer information.
The book " Stop the Thyroid Madness" has useful instruction ,although you may have to convert the U.S. quantities . The website of the same name may help.
NDT is made from the thyroids of animals. Most NDT is porcine (made from pig thyroid). But occasionally you read about bovine NDT (made from cow thyroid) or sheep thyroid (but I think that is really old-fashioned).
Usually NDT is from a pig, bovine would be from a cow.
I've tried Armour and NatureThroid (both piggy).
Best start slowly with half grain some find the T3 in the NDT 'different' - some just substitute a grain for 75 mcg (although some say it's more like 100mcg as bioidentical).
I take NDT which I get from Thailand. No scrip required. PM me if you'd like the source as a second string to your bow. Quite a lot of people on the forum take NDT, of one sort of another.
Start small and build up your NDT dose. You'll need to drop your Levo a commensurate amount at the same time. Someone else has given you the equivalents of NDT to Levo. As you can see from that, it might be possible to (over time) substitute 2 grains of NDT for your 100/200 dosing with Levo.
Are youu intending to replace all your Levo with NDT? Or just some of the dose?
Certainly for any NDT you add in you should reduce your Levo.
I haven't taken Levo for probably 4 years now, so I'm not a good person to ask about taking both. I expect there are people here who do (we are a very broad church!) and hopefully one of them will see your post. If not, start a thread with the question and someone certainly will.
Hi can you just clarify what would be equivalent to 50/75 levo in NDT I am trying to find my dose so tried 1 grain and didn't feel enough and then 1 1/4 was quite fiddly to cut so trying 1.5 grain but not sure if to much
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